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Ingredients
Serves: 36

750ml (1 1/4 pints) warm water (45 C)

15g (1/2 oz) dried active baking yeast

5 tablespoons honey

675g (1 1/2 lb) bread flour

50g (2 oz) butter, melted

5 tablespoons honey

1 tablespoon salt

425g (15 oz) wholemeal flour

30g (1 oz) butter, melted

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MethodPrep:45min › Cook:30min › Ready in:1hr15min

In a large bowl, mix warm water, yeast, and 5 tablespoons honey. Add bread flour, and stir to combine. Let sit for 30 minutes, or until bubbly.

Mix in 50g melted butter, remaining honey and salt. Stir in 1/2 of the wholemeal flour.

Dust a flat surface with flour and knead with wholemeal flour until slightly sticky - just pulling away from the counter, but still sticky to touch. This may take additional wholemeal flour. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to coat the surface of the dough. Cover with a tea towel. Let rise in a warm place until doubled.

Punch down, and divide into 3 loaves. Place in greased 23x12cm (9 x 5 in) loaf tins, and allow to rise until dough has topped the tins by one inch.

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by MommyFromSeattle

6

Used different ingredients.
Amazing recipe. I bake a lot of bread and this is by far one of the best wholemeal breads I've made. Surprisingly, this recipe is pretty much perfect. I've made it about 4 times now and it's foolproof. I've also sub sugar for honey and it works fine (use the same amount). This is a very moist, tender, slightly chewy bread. It makes the quintessential sandwich bread and stays moist for at least a few days. To make sandwich size bread, you will only need TWO large loaf tins. Exactly 25 min. was perfect for me. This will be my master wholemeal recipe.
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14 Jul 2008

Why does "plain" flour mean white flour, and why does "bread flour" mean white bread flour?
And who decided that a loaf in which less than 40% of the flour was wholemeal would qualify as a wholemeal loaf? Quick it may be: great-tasting, even; but wholemeal it most definitely isn't.
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19 Aug 2011

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by BIZZYBRANDI

3

Used different ingredients.
This bread is DELICIOUS! What I did differently was add a mixture of seeds such as sunflower, sesame, and whatever else was in the mixture. I replace the butter with apple sauce, and I don't use as much honey. I think the amount of honey the recipe calls for makes the bread too sweet. This bread does not need to be kneaded on a flour surface. I knead it in the bowl. After kneading, make sure your bowl is buttered so that the dough won't stick when you let it rise.
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14 Jul 2008